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River Lyric Video feat. @prophiphop (Full video in my Story)
Amos 5:24 “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” The thing about the idea of a rolling river of justice is that it can be a bit scary. What injustices am *I* guilty of, and what would the river of God’s justice do to me, mean for me, take from me? Amos 5 says God hates the stench of our religious practices But when I remember that the justice of God stems from the over arching and undergirding ever present LOVE of God, I can let go of that fear. The river of God’s justice is interested in the freedom and health of both oppressed and oppressor. And we get to participate in the Great Undoing of all that is wrong in this world when we lend our hands to work for our poor and oppressed and marginalized family. I hope you can pray these words with me right now; “Let justice roll like a river.” Thank you from the bottom of my heart to @prophiphop for writing and performing with me on this, and to Bryan Brown for writing and co-producing it with me.
River Lyric Video feat. @prophiphop (Full video in my story)
Check out my poem “Small Hours” in my last Instagram post.
In these small hours I am a witness to a brilliant, quiet light. I am the porter for that little pilgrim Who first made her way into the world Through my own still-soft body. She is bone of my bone And flesh of my flesh. Every soft small breath on my chest, Every rising and falling of her un-rippling back in her new-born unrest Every flutter of her eye as she sleeps altogether too lightly For my liking, Is the tiniest testament to the life We all were meant to lead. Because yes, even every cry she utters trustingly With no vestige of worry that she is too much to bear Or too hard to love Is instructive. Unfettered by the anxieties of having Learnt about the universe’s seeming brutality, She is a sign of things gone and things yet to come. She expresses pure need With no doubt that her pleading Will be met, simply and swiftly, by love. And I? I am gifted with the giving of the uncomplicated answers she seeks. Mirroring. Milk. Moonlit hours of wakefulness. The paper thin ice sheet Of worry That I am doing it all wrong Or that she is going too long Without sleep Or that my breasts might be running dry early Melts away under the warmth of remembering to just breathe her in. For soon, whether by death or the passing of time, She will leave and cleave herself to the wild world of her imaginings And I will step aside, wait in the wings, A willing witness to every beautiful little thing I once saw In these small hours.
Check out my poem “Small Hours” in my next post. #poetry
#Evergreen is available now. Link in profile. Check out my last image for a mini blog. :)
Many days I forget to remind myself that I know very little, and that I am very small. As a result the god of my imaginings becomes garish, and a caricature of all my greatest insecurities. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It is perhaps easiest for me to do this when I am living in a mindset of us/them or me/them. Suddenly the god of my imaginings says a lot of us/them things too. Funny coincidence. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I am never happier than when I am treating God as the ocean...something to be marveled at, inspired by, and floated in—never contained, never fully traversed, and never ever entirely at the command of my ideas. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #Evergreen is the first group of songs in some time that come from that stance of the heart. Receptive. Open. Unafraid of being misunderstood. I don’t get there as often as I wish, and even when I do I don’t stay there as long as I should: but I intend to spend the rest of my life trying. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
#evergreen is available now. Link in profile. See my next photo for mini blog :)
My new album #evergreen is available now everywhere [link in bio]
I slave over my track orders on every record and Evergreen was no exception. Months before I was even in the studio, I was on airplanes and in coffee shops obsessively ordering and re-ordering the songs, looking for the perfect journey for those who might actually listen to the album from front to back (an increasingly smaller but no less important group to me) — what you hear on Evergreen is crafted to both tell my story and facilitate a contemplative journey for the listener. . . Ordering the songs the way I did enabled me to both create a thematic arc and transition from song to song seamlessly in some cases, to provide an uninterrupted space musically and lyrically for prayer and processing. . . I begin Evergreen with a thesis — “The tree of life is evergreen.” The same evergreen tree Zacchaeus climbed to see the Lord (a sycamore) is said to be the tree that stood in the garden testifying to God’s goodness.  The album ventures through themes from there of breaking down bad ideas of God, walking through the valley, waking up to social justice being part of God’s kingdom on earth now, down into what it feels like to lose belief (Unfolding). Back up we go through a lament inspired by Mother Teresa into a song through the eyes of the prodigal son (When I See You) into Jesus as a wounded God (Wounded Healer), a hymn beloved by both my grandmothers that sings far more confidently about heaven than I feel (Immanuel’s Land) and finally, the album’s closing statement—Drawn To You. . . If you haven’t listened through to the album yet, I’d encourage you to, because the order of the songs is half the experience of the music. Either way, I hope you have been loving what you are hearing—and if you haven’t checked it out yet, please do. . . From my heart to yours, Audrey
My new album #evergreen is available now everywhere [link in bio]